So Rolando McClain wasn’t waived today, what does that mean?

It means the Raiders are probably trying to see if they can suspend linebacker Rolando McClain for his “actions” this week. And if they can’t, then Oakland will finally make it official and waive its starting middle linebacker. In short, those owning McClain jerseys can safely throw them in the dish rag pile.

What McClain’s actions were nobody is saying, but Raiders coach Dennis Allen said Thursday that “there’s going to be consequences to his actions.” McClain was not on the waiver wire Thursday but Allen said the team asked him not to come to practice.

“We’ve got to make a decision as an organization,” Allen said. “We’re going to make sure we make the right decision.”

Allen wouldn’t go into anymore detail, and general manager Reggie McKenzie and McClain’s agent haven’t commented on the issue.

McClain was at practice early Wednesday and then left and didn’t participate due to a “team-related issue,” Allen said. There was one report of a heated exchange between Allen and McClain but a dozen or so players I talked to didn’t see one. S0me saw them talking at one point, but didn’t think anything of it.

The players don’t know McClain’s status — only that it’s obviously not good — but they all saw his Facebook comments Wednesday afternoon — which have since been deleted.

That last one raised some eyebrows among teammates, many of whom weren’t that close to the often-standoffish McClain in the first place.

McClain didn’t make enough plays on the field for a 3-8 team to worry about his absence, and the sense I get is the players just want to put the issue behind them. Whether it was something that happened Wednesday or just McClain himself.

As far as the theory that the Raiders wouldn’t cut him now so they could trade him in the offseason … McClain is due to make $9.8 million in 2013 and 2014. And we haven’t even mentioned his off-field problems, and the 180-day jail sentence for firing a gun past someone’s head that went away when McClain appealed and the victim decided not to proceed.